New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-16
A CONTRACT or MARRIAGE SHOWN.
CLAIMING TO BE MIR. RANpELEs WIFE.
TESTIMONY IN CoRRoBoRATIoS OF HER STATE
xyyT-Is 1T CONsPIRACYI

TESTIMONY IN CORROBoRATIoS OF HER sTArE-
MENT-Is IT A CONSPIRACY
Georpe David Randell, wealthy Wholesale grocer
and louor merchant ofNe wark made the acquaintance
of Emiline F. Moorecraft at Coney Island In june,
1880 They became intimate and she now claims TO DO
his wife. He was q wldower, but has since married
M,ss Elite Winans of Brookl,n. Miss Moorecratts
anti to establish a marriage with him occupied the
attention OF Justice Patterson and q jury IN the
Supreme Court yesterday. The plaintiff and her htte
Girl were present William Mitchell called the plain:
ff as the first witness She said she introduced
TO Mr. Randell at Coney Island by an old friend lie
aiterward calel on her frequently and hna'iy pro-
posed marriage. She accepted him and agreed that
There should be no ceremony beyond the signing of
contract as he said his eldest daughter was about to
DC married and public ceremony might make matters
UNPLEASANT for him. The contract was signed with
her sister Mrs. Rachel ID. Brooke, as witness The
document had been lost, but copy Of 1t, which she
said she had made herself, was identihed. II runs
BROOKLYN February II. 1881.
10 snd all S nS %Gs state Of DO
hsrsey y and BY E%.ns MoSrscrSit be
s sHS in nn all % sssn aoe.
i Ssassn And .p thereof so may the
EMIISE i. RAxDELI
Witnem: RACHEL d. BROOKE.
The witness stated that the marriage was kept
secret until Nav 1881, when Randell called at No.
97S Dean-st Brooklyn, where che lived with her
mother, and said to the latter: Mr. Moorecraft,
don't hk bst be- Em WSs aea
"a her husband and spent several nights week Mt
the house After a while he ceased to call and she
wrote To him asking him TO meet her IN jersey City.
she went there accompanied by her sister and
dell met them lie said he could do nothing more for
her that the contract not binding IN NewJersey,
aud that he didn't Tor any Judge or jury IN New
York.
EY-Julre Fullerton, In crOssexaminiDg the witness,
introduced n paper purportng to be signed by tho
nlantif granting George d. Rande release from the
marriage contract and from all responsibility for the
children born during his union with the ainiif 10,
CONFEDERATION of 81 600 Tho witness said she had
slpued it before il WAS fed in and neier knew its
contents She received the 81 900 Tor her support and
that of her child. She acknowledged that shc had
been arrested for shoplitng but said that 1t was
conspiracy and she had been honoraDy discharged
Richard d. Brooke, sister OF the plaintiff. corrobor-
nted the witnessing of the contract and said that her
sister made the copy produced in the presence OF the
witness who read II to her. , 80.
Mrs Theresa Moorecrat, the mother OF the plantli,
testified that the defendant told her OF Lis marriage to
her daughter nvc months alter II occurred. After that
Mr. ana Mrs Kandel occupied the back parlor in her
house. ~ =,
The plaintiff. recalled exhibited n plain gold ring
which She said had been given her by Mr.. Randell.
Mira lmma Ijrnc depOsed that IN 1883 the plaintlii
introduced Mr. Randel "a her husband and he asked
the witness 10 cali him ana his VIE. Edward ~
Hirnc husband OF the last witness, corrotorated her
story. -,
MTr. Marie Louise Kmb IL test fed that she heard
Mr. Randell say he going To take his wlie reier-
ling TO the PLAINTIFF and 90 10 Housekeeping.
Ex-Judge Fullerton characterized the suit IA
wicked conspiracy establish marriage that never
took mace He called Baldwin +. Strauss. a law yer.
OF Brooklyn who testified that he had drawn u inc
agreement for the payment OF $1,000 in settlement OF
the plaintiffs claim that the defendant had betrayed
her she did net assert that she was his wife.
The trial will be continued to-day.